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  1. Has anyone tested to verify if FB has continued their older practice of hoovering up all the data at install time prior to the user being able to make any choices? I had honeypot contacts with email accounts in my iphone 4. They received 'join FB' emails after installing the FB app and disabling all the data collection before first use. I've assumed FB is just taking everything no matter what they say since then.

  2. Re:Nobody forced you to use facebook on Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data For Years From Android Phones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, that happened to me.

    I have done the obvious thing though. Plant a bunch of false information for them to hoover up as well. Poisoned stalker database is best database.

    When will someone make a web plugin that uses peer to peer to randomize FB cookies between users to screw up all the web metrics?

  3. They'd try to get around permissions.

    I had fake honeypot contacts when I first installed the app. The installer at the time had no option to disable contact collecting. There was an option in the app. So the app collected that info during install before you could get to the option based on honeypot hits. At least a few updates reset the app to allow max info collection. With auto updates, FB would again begin grabbing info silently and transparently.

    I must say I'm stunned, just stunned to hear allegations FB is acting like a cross between a stalker and the stazi.

  4. Just like with voting. You don't have a problem with getting a voting license, right? Voting is even more dangerous. Think what happens when the wrong person gets in! Licensing certainly isn't being used to make sure only the 'right' people have armed protection is it? New York & DC aren't happening right? Voting licenses will be the same, no problem at all. We've already agreed that rights can be dependent on licenses so it's no problem, is it.

    And if you bring out the argument that the right to bear arms isn't individual due to the added provision specifically allowing the states to form militias, I'll point out that in the minutes of the discussions about that term they felt nobody could be so stupid that they'd misunderstand that.

  5. Re:I probably would have hit her on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Lidar etc should have seen the pedestrian just fine. Why wasn't it breaking at all? Also, the car headlights were pointed too far down to see a normal distance in front of the car.

    The pedestrian didn't even look despite being in car headlight though. Why not? That's very odd.

  6. Re:The only way to actually "delete Facebook" is.. on WhatsApp Co-Founder Tells Everyone To Delete Facebook, Further Fueling the #DeleteFacebook Movement (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes! Poisoning the database is the best way.

    Won't someone make a plugin that peer to peer shares your advertising stalking cookies to randomize them? It'd be tougher for them to filter out genuine cookies to keep the poison out. For bonus points report that it's being done 6 months to a year later. Later publicly ask whether they're disclosing this or get quotes for an ad buy to see.

  7. They will have to add a problem glasses approved persons tick. A tick blue hair naturally.

  8. They're looking for animal farm equality.

  9. Re:Soooo... 10 years, eh? on Apple To Suspend iTunes Store Support For 'Obsolete' First-Gen Apple TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But automobiles will move from being owned to being provided as a service, because people won't be able to afford autonomous vehicles. For the immediate future, the added price tag of the hardware will be enough to keep their ownership out of the hands of the masses.

    Renting is more profitable. Auto companies will try forcing rental anytime they have the leverage to force it. They inflate the cost of replacement parts and restrict repair tools to their dealers which also inflate labor costs to increase the cost of ownership vs leasing. That'll last right up until a maker of autonomous cars gets into financial trouble and sells to attract more customers. If that works, the rest will follow suit, but they'll certainly collude to delay that as long as possible if they can.

  10. Re:Framing is important on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Based on the current setup, I think I can clear up the misunderstanding. 'What do you mean we, homeless person?'

  11. Re:Why do his politics matter? on Most Cities Would Welcome a Tech Billionaire, But Peter Thiel? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    'White men are guilty of original sin by existing' narrative is central to their narrative. If original sin is a core belief can they really be a purely political and not religious movement? I looks more like religious fanaticism from way (waaaay) over here, complete with cries of heretic!

  12. P2P tracking cookie swapping would be neat too. Poison the hell out of those stalking databases.

  13. Re:Reverse engineering != copyright infringement on Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If the client references those names server side, then they're required for interoperability. That's an affirmative defense.

  14. Re:Abandoned games... on Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If the art assets are client side, then there is no copying.

  15. Re:In Favor on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    I'm doing exactly the same thing. I went through a few versions of lightroom but I'm done with that too. I haven't bought/upgraded CS since Adobe cut off camera raw updates as a bait-n-switch 1 month after I bought. They advertised the availability of camera raw updates with CS3, then canceled them forever before I got even one. As a casual user, my response was to never buy again rather than pay the upgrade fee for the entire suite just to get the raw update.

  16. Re:I don't think he's ever going to regret it on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says He Does Not Regret Firing James Damore (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So you haven't read the memo itself. You wouldn't write that they couldn't keep Damore and women if you had, as he was making credible realistic suggestions about how to make the workplace more inviting. Those suggestions ran afoul of progressive ideology though, and daring to suggest that gender is real and that women may feel welcome if things like family life were allowed for is heretical nowadays.

  17. Unless you're arguing that the progressive/post modernist/collectivist ideology behind the attacks on him are somehow too socialist for 'the left' I don't know what you could mean. Libertarians and Conservatives may have disagreed with his support of diversity initiatives but you'll have to provide a citation for apoplexy. I've not seen anything like that.

  18. Re:Interesting that Pichai responded on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says He Does Not Regret Firing James Damore (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah. He needs a publicist to make those points on his behalf, especially Google censoring the story. It'd be fun if they crafted some collectivist doublespeak about Google's power/privileged as a media gatekeeper and that they're the oppressor spreading a false narrative.

  19. Re:What the... on BMW's Apple CarPlay Annual Fee is Next-level Gouging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Really, for $60k BMW is too cheap to provide a radio that works fully?

  20. I prefer to give them less real info, and make sure to salt everything they get with fictitious info to poison their well. Hiding info from the stalker vaccum cleaner is tough, but getting it to take more info is easy.

  21. Re: What did you THINK would happen? on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Charged; Faces 11 More Years in Prison (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Your tard helmet is too tight if you can't understand his analogy. I'm sure you're the smartest one on the short bus though, so you've got that going for you.

  22. Re:Is Yelp still a thing? on Yelp Accused Of Hiding Positive Reviews For Non-Advertiser (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I haven't. And then Google makes your activity searchable, saleable and available for any fashionable accusations of wrongthink in the future.

  23. Re:“Unpublishing” something is not pos on Should Regulators Force Facebook To Ship a 'Start Over' Button For Users? (hunterwalk.com) · · Score: 1

    FB would agree right away provided they can influence the regulatory language the right way. Then they'll keep the data but 'anonomized' with and undo feature for law enforcement/anti-terrorism/protecting the children. And here is the neat part, that info will become even more valuable so FB will be able to sell it to political opposition research firms (or reputation protection firms that are certainly not a disguised front for FB will sell 'protection'). This sounds like a gold mine that only gets bigger if you make all the little fish wipe the embarrassing info.

  24. We have a word for this: We call it 'democracy.'

    Unless we've been to a better school. Then we call it Republic, or representative republic if we're more pedantic.

  25. Re: Comparing Trump to Stalin is utter foolishness on UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    I disagree. Stalin espoused communist views but his repeated behaviour was autocratic not communistic. Kim espouses that he is a democrat but he acts like and has the power of an autocrat just the same as Stalin. If you want to call Stalin's USSR a communist state then you have to allow that North Korea is a democracy. I do not accept either as legitimate.

    Are you really trying the 'No true Scottsman' fallacy with Communism? They didn't do communism right?

    No. Just no. There should have been a 10 million deaths caused by your political idea limit, but no. That wasn't real socialism done right. Why, it doesn't always turn out that way! Ooops, another 40 million dead! Not our fault, it wasn't done right, lets go again. Oh, another 20 million dead? Did I do that? Don't blame me! It's not like this always happens every single time you form humans into a social structure like this... --well, except it's happened every single time. Other than that, you can't prove anything.

    Over 100 million exterminated for a political ideology in just Russia and Mao's China alone, and kids will wear Mao shirts and decry the 'unfairness' in the West in comparison? Sorry, I remember 'I've seen the future and it works' used to excuse the Soviet concentration death camps (Gulags) and recommend adopting the system in the West. Why kind of murderous monster would do that?

    So no, when your political ideal has only ever been implemented on an actual literal mountain of innocent bodies you don't get to hand wave that away, point at the other guy and say 'he's doing it too' or justify it based on another guys abuses. That doesn't justify it at all. Period.

    Also,despite what's taught in lowest common denominator classes, Fascism has more in common with Communism than not. Once the collapse of economic production was realized to be an inseparable 'feature' of socialism, a solution was sought. Commanding existing industrial leaders by the political authoritarians improved several failings. The existing business leaders actually knew the business, and would be better than the total failures political commisar CEOs proved to be. Also, when there were public failures the CEO was a ready scapegoat who wasn't part of the party leadership. Other than that, Fascism has more in common with communism than not (in actual practice - not what they say but don't do).